It’s always the journey that matters.
replyIf you’re experienced as you are, you’re not learning the same way a junior assigned this might learn from it.
So the project I mentioned while I did write every single line of app code and IAC, made every architectural decision, etc., I did come on an off the project over the course of a year and I couldn’t even remember some of the decisions I made.
replyI also used Codex and asked questions about how the codebase worked to refresh my own memory. Why wouldn’t a junior developer do the same?
I mentioned that I had Codex describe in detail how it debugged it. It walked through each query it did, the lines of code it looked at and the IAC. It jogged my memory about code I wrote a year ago and after being on other projects
If you’re 50+ as you intimated in your first post then you have a wealth of knowledge that juniors don’t.
replyJust because it worked this time doesn’t mean it always will.
If you need further explanation of why you might want to spend more time resolving a bug to learn about the systems you’re tasked with maintaining then I’m at a loss sorry.
And then as experience developer you would have to try one of the other tools in your toolbox. Why should someone tie a hand behind their back and not use an LLM out of some sense of nerd pride?
replyDid you miss this part?
reply But he was doing this for education, not for work.
With his experience, I seriously doubt that he is trying to compete in the job market based on his ability to “codez real gud”. At his (and my) experience level he is more than likely going to get his next job based on a higher level of “scope” and “impact” (yes I’m using BigTech promo docs BS).
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